RALEIGH
- State Bureau of Investigation agents today arrested two
correctional officers and one former officer.

District
Attorney Branny Vickory, 8th Prosecutorial District, has charged
Gregory Allen Beck, Terry Lynn Bell and Brian Steve Bostick with
assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. The charges
are related to a use of force that occurred in March 2008 at Maury
Correctional Institution in
GreeneCounty.

Beck
resigned from his position in July 2008. He was a captain at the
time.
Bell, a sergeant, and Bostick, a correctional
officer, are on investigatory suspension. Formal disciplinary action
against them began today.

“Our
job is protecting the safety of the public and the inmates in our
institutions,” said Correction Secretary Alvin Keller. “This agency
has zero tolerance for employees who abuse inmates or operate
outside the bounds of the law and our policies and procedures.”

The
Department of Correction referred this case to the SBI for
investigation in July 2008.